Welcome to Blackpast

Welcome to BlackPast

This reference center with 7,326 posts is dedicated to providing information to the general public on African American history and the history of more than one billion people of African ancestry around the world.  We invite you to explore and use all the resources of BlackPast.

Explore African American History

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Ralph Melvin Wimbish (1922-1967)
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James Meredith (1933- )
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“Jersey” Joe Walcott (1914-1994)
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Bill Pickett Invitational Rodeo (1984- )

Explore Global African History

The Laroche Family
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Joseph Phillipe Lemercier Laroche (1889-1912)
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(1968) Chinua Achebe, “The Duty and Involvement of the African Writer”
Map Showing Hannibal's Route of Invasion into Italy
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Hannibal Barca (247 B.C.E.-183 B.C.E.)
Earl Whaley's Orchestra Over Shanghai, ca 1937
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The Black Pacific, 1919-1941: African Americans and Asia in the Interwar Period

Perspectives in African American and Global African History

Earl Whaley's Orchestra Over Shanghai, ca 1937
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The Black Pacific, 1919-1941: African Americans and Asia in the Interwar Period
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TransAtlantic Food Migration: The African Culinary Influence on the Cuisine of the Americas
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The Other Hermitage: The Enslaved at the Andrew Jackson Plantation
Members of the Southern Negro Youth Congress meet with Idaho Senator Glen Taylor, 1947
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The Southern Negro Youth Congress: A Participant Recalls Its Past

Special Features & Resources

101 African American Firsts
Genealogy Resources
Major African American Office Holders since 1641
STEM Innovators

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